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Nikola Tesla - Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer
Nikola Tesla – Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer

Introduction to energy generation

Prior to the discovery of Faraday’s Laws of electromagnetic discussion, electrical power was available from batteries with limited voltage and current levels. Although complicated in construction, D.C. generators were developed first to generate power in bulk.

However, due to limitation of the D.C. machine to generate voltage beyond few hundred volts, it was not economical to transmit large amount of power over a long distance. For a given amount of power, the current magnitude (I = P/V), hence section of the copper conductor will be large.

Thus generation, transmission and distribution of D.C. power were restricted to area of few kilometer radius with no interconnections between generating plants. Therefore, area specific generating stations along with its distribution networks had to be used.

In later half of eighties, in nineteenth century, it was proposed to have a power system with 3-phase, 50 Hz A.C generation, transmission and distribution networks.

Once A.C. system was adopted, transmission of large power (MW) at higher transmission voltage become a reality by using transformers. Level of voltage could be changed virtually to any other desired level with transformers – which was hitherto impossible with D.C system.

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FAT procedure for LV switchboards

Visual inspection with customer will be carried out on the LV switchboard to: Check the layout of fitted components Check the over all dimension of switchboard, size of busbars, cables… Read more

Mar 10, 2012

FAT procedure for LV switchboards

Complete Patents Of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), was the discoverer of the alternating current light and power system in use all over the world today. His inventions should have made him a multimillionaire, but… Read more

Feb 25, 2012

Complete Patents Of Nikola Tesla

Guide to MV/LV transformer substations

An electrical transformer substation consists of a whole set of devices (conductors, measuring and control apparatus and electric machines) dedicated to transforming the voltage supplied by the medium voltage distribution… Read more

Feb 10, 2012

MV/LV transformer substations – theory and examples of short-circuit calculation – ABB

Best Practice Manual For Transformers

Distribution transformers are very efficient, with losses of less than 0.5% in large units. Smaller units have efficiencies of 97% or above. It is estimated that transformer losses in power… Read more

Jan 27, 2012

Best Practice Manual For Transformers

PROFIBUS – Cabling and Assembly Guide

General plant or factory cabling can carry high voltages and currents. Running PROFIBUS cables parallel to such cables can lead to interference pickup and thus  to data transmission errors. Special… Read more

Dec 18, 2011

Lighting Handbook

Colour is a subjective psycho physiologic interpretation of the visible electromagnetic spectrum. Luminous sensations or images, produced in our retina, are sent to the brain and interpreted as a set… Read more

Sep 25, 2011

Lighting Handbook

Danfoss – From Real-World Applications

From real-world applications, for the real world is intended for the specialist controller and project engineer who wish to inform themselves about the possible applications of speed-controlled drives. Switching suggestions… Read more

Apr 14, 2011

Power Factor – The Basics

Super. I’m ready to find out what power factor is. To understand power factor, we’ll first start with the definition of some basic terms: To understand power factor, we’ll first… Read more

Dec 08, 2010

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    Diode testing cold and with 24 VDC
    PT IR testing secondary circuit
    resistance with ground
    MCBs replaced
    The star point of the secondary circuit and its grounding.
    the resistance of earting pits
    verified full excitation circuit.
    Everything found normal

    Could anybody help or give an idea or they faced this problem, please respond.
    Regards


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      Hello,

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    Oct 29, 2015

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    Sep 05, 2014

    Hi sir..
    I am having confusion in selection of alternate motor against the installed one.Here i will give the details of installed & alternate motor which i decided for procurement.

    Installed 3 phase Squirrel cage IM:
    Supply Voltage=415v; P=22Kw; Rated Torque=131.7Nm; speed=1468rpm; Frame Size=180L; Rated Current=37.2A(VFD duty Motor); NDE bearings=6210 ZC3 ;DE bearings=6210 ZC3; Cooling Method=IC416 ;

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    Supply Voltage=415v; P=22Kw; Rated Torque=143Nm; speed=1473rpm; Frame Size=180L; Rated Current=38A; NDE bearings=6310 ZC3 ;DE bearings=6310 ZC3; Cooling Method=IC411 ;
    Kindly suggest me to procure the proposed one or not and request you to give the detailed articles regarding selection of different motors with known motor.


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  67. Vele
    Jun 19, 2014

    Hi Sir,
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    • nbn
      Aug 28, 2015

      Any of the trafo needs to be grounded that is 2 earth pit of neutral earthing & 2 earth pit of body earthing.

      & neutral grounding resistor(NGR) panels are provided in HT DG panels


  68. Chanh
    Jun 01, 2014

    Hi Sir,

    i would like to know how to choose correct capacitor for run or start motor and can i use large or small capacitor than the existing one for motor


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    Feb 14, 2014

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    can u help me in my project tat is gsm based power sharing of transformer with automatic load shedding system. can u give me detailed information about this.


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    Oct 13, 2013

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    Aug 17, 2013

    Hello sir! i feel difficult to understand some concepts of Elec.engg like vector fields in electroagnetic theory,and finding hard to apply in problems,so my request is please make arrangements as these concepts are very important for an Elec.engg students.and also it will be useful for other students.
    I am waiting for your answer


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    Jan 30, 2013

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    • Edvard
      Jan 05, 2013

      Thanks ESSA, very kind of you!


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      Dec 25, 2012

      Thank you! Very kind of you!


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        Jan 23, 2017

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    May 13, 2012

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      Dec 17, 2019

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      and grounding test

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